Reviews
Bere
It's impossible not to like the mighty Saltfishforty, comprising of Orcadians Douglas Montgomery on fiddle, viola, guitar and mandolin and...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: July/2017
Indigo Soul
A confident and exhilarating album, Indigo Soul suffers slightly from a trade description issue. Unnati is presented as a ‘London...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: June/2020
Big Blue Desert
It is a measure of Mehdi Haddab's intensity and generosity that the oud player conjures an imaginary galaxy in the...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
Wakar Alhazai Kano/Mus'en Sofua
After recording several albums for various Nigerian labels as the Martins Brothers Dance Band (heard on Soundway's 2004 compilation Afro...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2020
Beches Indian Brew
As a more globalised world emerged in the 1960s and 70s, the Swedish jazz drummer Bengt Berger (aka Beche) kept...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: December/2017
Cambridge Folk Festival: Celebrating 50 Years
Not, as you might have supposed, a track from each year of the Cambridge Folk Festival's 50-year history, but a...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Zoona Malawi
As Gasper Nali hoists his ten-foot, homemade babatoni, we clearly have a candidate for unusual instrument of the month: it...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Catastrophic Life
“The Marx Brothers on acid; the nightmare of Benjamin Netanyahu; freaks; millionaires on a mission impossible; a great story,” this...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: March/2020
Kyogokuryu-Sokyoku ‘Shinshunfu’
The latest instalment of EM Records' archive series focuses on a single piece by Japanese composer Kohei Amada (1892-1985). A...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: July/2019
Avante Delírio
Born in Belém, raised in Fortaleza, based in São Paulo, Saulo Duarte claims to be an exponent of country-style guitar...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2019
